The Resources:

• Projects
• Books
• Links
• Videos

Social Studies

• Timeline- construct a timeline of World War II
• Add important players and events to your timeline by downloading public domain pictures from the National Archives Web Site

Geography

• Discuss climates of the various theatres involved in World War II
• Make Salt Dough Relief Maps of various battle grounds and important areas in the War:

  Recipe:

  Materials: Plywood or stiff cardboard, flour, water, salt, tempera, paint, brushes

1. Blend 2 parts flour, 1 part salt and ½ part water to a bread-dough consistency
2. Draw a map outline on the board and roll out the dough to cover the shape.
3. Add dough to form hills and montains and carve out dough to form rivers, streams, and valleys.
4. Let it dry several days and then paint the surface. Add names of geographical areas by making toothpick flags (insert while dough is still moist)or painting on names.
5. Complete map with a legend

Language/Writing activities:

• Have students write essays on the following topics:

1. How have you spent your freedom?
2. If you were an American male, age 18, in 1942, would you have enlisted? Why or why not?
3. What would have happened if the outcome had been different?
4. Will there ever be another World War?

• For further study, read fictional and non-fictional books about World War II
• Memorize and perform important speeches by FDR, Churchill, etc.

Math

• Make a bar graph of Allied and Axis killed, wounded, MIA and POW, and total casualties.
• Calculate gas prices and mileage using the average of 15MPG for a car in the 1940's and gas at $.12 per gallon. Use a local map to work with familiar locations, and a tri-state map for trips.

Science

• Study Frostbite (Battle of the Bulge). How do you prevent it? How is it treated?
• Discuss survival in extreme heat and cold.
• Water purification - could soldiers drink water from Manila Bay? Why or why not?
• Research penicillin and why it was such an important discovery.
• Study tropical diseases

Physical Education / Sports

• Marching- Boot Camp marching instructions (Drill Field)
• What was the All-American Girl's Professional Baseball League?
• Write biographies on sports celebrities who served in the Armed Forces during WWII (Joe D’Amaggio, Joe Louis, etc.).

Art / Music

• Norman Rockwell's portrayal of "Rosie the Riveter"graced the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. Study Norman Rockwell, his art, and how it depicts this historical era.
• Study the Big Band Era. How did the music of the 40’s reflect the war?
• Various celebrities were drafted, and joined in the War effort. Research who they were (i.e., Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable), and how they affected public opinion.

Life Skills

• Bake a "Victory Cake" (a cake using less sugar and fat) - permission is pending to post a recipe originally published by Proctor & Gamble for Crisco, and will be added to this website later.
• Plan a week's meals for a family using less sugar, butter, meat, coffee, etc.

• Darman, Peter. Uniforms of World War II. Edison: Book Sales Incorporated, June 1998.
• Meyer, Susan E. Norman Rockwell's World War II Impressions from the Homefront San Antonio United Services Automobile Association (U.S.A.A.) Dec. 1991.
• Crawford, Anthony R. Posters of World War I & World War II in George C. Marshall Research Foundation. Charlottesville University Press of Virginia Oct. 1979.
• Goldstein, Richard. America at D-Day A Book of Remembrance. New York Dell Publishing Company, Incorporated June 1994.
• Benford, Timothy B. The World War II Quiz & Fact Book. New York: Berkeley Publishing Group, Sept. 1986.
• Houston, James D. Farewell to Manzanar. San Francisco Book Company. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Oct. 1973.
• Terkel, Studs. The Good War. New York: New Press, March 1997.
• Freedman, Russell. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, Oct. 1990
• Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz. REP, REV. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, Feb. 1985.
• Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, April 1989.
• Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, Aug. 1979.
• Matas, Carol. Daniel's Story. New York: Scholastic, Incorporated, April 1993.
• Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. New York Pocket Books Sept. 1982
• Don't You Know There's A War On? By James Stevenson
• The Hiding Place By: Corrie ten Boom
• Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia

• What did you do in the War Grandma? (Women in the homefront)
• The All-American Girl's Professional Baseball League
• World War II Posters: Powers of Persuasion (from the National Archives)
• Fighting War with Photographs: The Images of WWII
• Bataan, Corregidor, and the Death March In Retrospect
• Remembering Pearl Harbor
• Camp Harmony Exhibit - Miss Evan's Class: a scrapbook from a teacher who taught many Japanese-American children that were interned.
• The Holocaust A Tragic Legacy
• The Japanese Surrender Document (from the National Archives)
• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes: a children's book based on a true story of the devastation caused by the Atom Bomb.

EUROPEAN/ATLANTIC THEATER

• Action in the North Atlantic, (1943) Humphrey Bogart , (U- Boat Attacks -Atlantic Naval)
• The Assisi Underground (1985) Ben Cross, James Mason (European Theater)
• Attack on the Iron Coast, (1967) Lloyd Bridges ( French Coast, Atlantic Naval)
• Battle of Britain( 1969) Lawrence Olivier, Robert Shaw ( Europe)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965) Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw (Europe)
• Battle Ground ( 1949) Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban (Europe)
• Breakthrough (1950) David Brian, John Agar ( Normandy, Europe)
• Bridge at Remagen (1968) George Segal, Robert Vaughn (Europe)
• Command Decision (1949) Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon (Europe)
• Cross of Iron (1977) James Coburn, James Mason (Eastern Front - Russia)
• D-Day, The Sixth of June(1956) Robert Taylor, Richard Todd ( Europe, Normandy)
• Desert Fox(1951) James Mason, Jessica Tandy (Hitler's Germany, Rommel)
• Devil's Brigade(1968) Wiilaim Holden, Cliff Robertson ( Europe)
• Dirty Dozen (1967)Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine (Europe)
  The Enemy Below(1957) Robert Mitchum, Curt Jergens (Atlantc U-Boat)
• Four Horsemen of The Apocolypse(1961) Henry Fonda (French Resistance)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998) Tom Hanks ( Europe, Normandy) ** rated R for graphic violence

PACIFIC THEATER

• Airforce, (1943), John Garfield, Gig Young   (Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea)
• Attack Force Z, (1981) Mel Gibson, Sam Neill (South Pacific, Australia)
• Away All Boats (1956) Jeff Chandler, George Nadar (Pacific)
• Back to Bataan (1945) John Wayne, Anthony Quinn (Pacific)
• Battle of Coral Sea (1959) Cliff Robertson (Pacific)
• Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Alec Guiness, William Holden (Pacific, Burma)
• Destination Tokyo (1943) Cary Grant, John Garfield ( Pacific)
• Dragon Seed(1944) Katherine Hepburn, Walter Houston (Japan attacking China)
• Fighting Seabees (1944) John Wayne, Susan Hayward (Pacific)
• Flying Leathernecks(1951)John Wayne, Robert Ryan (Pacific, Guadalcanal)
• Flying Tigers (1942) John Wayne (Pacific, Japanese in China)
• Midway (1976) Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda (Pacific)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Joseph Cotton, Jason Robards ( Pacific)

GENERAL/ MULTIPLE THEATERS/POWS/HOLOCAUST

• Between Heaven and Hell (1956) Robert Wagner, Buddy Ebsen ( US, about the Draft)
• The Big Red One (1980) Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill ( All theaters)
• The Captive Heart (1946) Michael Redgrave (POW's in Germany)
• *The Colditz Story(1954) John Mills, Lionel Jeffries ( German Prison Camp)
• Desperate Journey (1942)Errol Flynn, Alan Hale ( POW's Germany)
• Diary of Anne Frank(1959) Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters ( Holocaust)
• The Eagle Triumphant (1989) Documentary with footage from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day
• Empire of the Sun (1987) John Malkovich, Christian Bale (Japanese Internment)
• Foreign Correspondent(1940)Joel McCrea (Propaganda to drive America to enter War)
• 49th Parallel (1941) Laurence Olivier (Propaganda, U-Boat Crew infiltrating US)
• Great Battles of WWII (1987) 5 volume documentary featuring specific major battles in all theaters.
• Schindler's List (1993) Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley (Jewish forced labor,Holocaust)
• V for Victory - 10 volume documentary covers all theaters of the War from prelude to end.
• Why We Fight (1942-45) Dir. Frank Capra, six volume documentary series- four star rating
  1. Prelude to war
  2. The Nazis Strike
  3. The Battle of Britain
  4. The Battle of Russia
  5. The Battle of China
  6. War Comes to America

AFRICA

• Desert Rats (1953) James Mason, Richard Burton ( Africa Campaign)